I haven’t posted in a while due to a bunch of reasons, and I’d like to get into a rhythm again. I thought I’d start by sharing the kind of unique way I have my media stuff running through and Xbox One.
I’ve played a bunch of games on the Xbox since I got it in November – and a bunch of them have been great. But the Kinect and HDMI in are the unique part I wanted to mention. My set up is that I have a Kinivio HDMI switcher with a TiVo, Apple TV, and Wii U going into it, and the switchers output plugged into the Xbox. The Xbox can control be setup to control TV functions, and with the Kinect it can do those with voice commands (“volume up/down”, “mute”, “pause”, etc). Since I have everything running through my Xbox, I can keep using those commands with any of my other devices.
Having a bunch of things running through this specific HDMI switcher works especially well because it automatically switcher to any input that start getting a new signal, so I rarely have to manually switch inputs.
The only downside is that I have to have my Xbox One on to use anything else, but in practice that hasn’t been annoying at all.
